Akowou Surname
Approximately 56 people bear this surname
Akowou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 55 | 1:187,920 | 18,137 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Akowou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akowou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Akowou is carried by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Akowou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Akowou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,580,327th most commonly held last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 130,134,748 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Akowou live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Akowou is most frequently used in Benin, where it is carried by 55 people, or 1 in 187,920. In Benin Akowou is mostly concentrated in: Zou Department, where 53 percent live, Atlantique Department, where 27 percent live and Collines Department, where 15 percent live. Without taking into account Benin this last name is found in one country. It is also common in France, where 2 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Akowou
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